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Wasnt the Oppenheimer story basically that?

• pjc50 12d ago
  There was https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2019/09/12/the_fear_that_a_nuclear_bomb_could_ignite_the_atmosphere.html https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2019/09/12/the_fear_th... , but that was (validly) dismissed by other scientists working on it, and also wasn't a discussion that was happening in public because the entire program was secret. "This will kill a lot of (other) people" was explicit in the building of the bomb, but then so was the entire war effort.